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...American Century" gives fans of hard-boiled crime fiction what they want: an escape into a secret, cynical world where morality drains out like blood into a gutter. Better still, it also gives comix fans what they want: an engaging story that stretches out to sophisticated commentary in a pop-culture guise. In 1952 such comics all but died after the institution of the Comics Code Authority. But now, assuming Howard Chaykin and company don't blow it, all at once mainstream pulp comics have caught up with their healthfully evolved book and movie relations...
...which all of you still reading this know is about three imaginary psychopaths involved in everything from the Bay of Pigs to the assassination of John F. Kennedy--is a hard book to follow. Having gone way over the top in his first portrait of recent U.S. history as gutter journalism and a paranoid drug trip, Ellroy can't replicate the first-time shock effects of Tabloid and must settle instead for offering more of the same. He does so brilliantly, but the thrills seem familiar...
...Nobody messes with Eeyore and lives to tell the tale b) Honey addiction will land you in the gutter c) Bangkok is cracking down on counterfeiting d) Asia hates Pooh...
...would be good, beph cause she's smart, she's a nice lady and she raised me out of the gutter to where I am today...
There are some things that happen only in movies. That's what I always thought about having an umbrella blown inside-out by a gust of wind or getting gutter-splashed by a car. Coming from Los Angeles, where roads are wide and the rain always vertical, I thought those things were some wide-eyed screenwriter's fancy...